DOKU (www.shopDOKU.com) has been created to provide U.S. fashionistas a passport to global style. DOKU retails emerging, independent, designers from Europe, Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, South America, and the U.S. Keeping the global aesthetic of customers in mind, DOKU presents products from a carefully curated list of acclaimed designers that offer a variety of styles, flirty silhouettes, and colorful prints.
The new online retailer offers unprecedented access to apparel (dresses, skirts, jumpers, shirts, and swimwear) and accessories from emerging designers around the globe such as, Season 12 Project Runway Winner Dom Streater (Philadelphia) , LaQuan Smith (New York), Ame’yo (Ghana), Triologie (Singapore), Birdie Num Num (Chile), ZAAF Handbags (Ethiopia), Bello|Edu (Ghana), and Lorraine West Jewelry (New York). Many of the designers currently boast a list of celebrity clients like Kim Kardashian West, Erykah Badu, and Beyonce.
Items retailed range in price from $60 to just under $800. Every piece is produced in the designer’s country of origin, enabling shoppers to support local markets from Asia to Africa.
Customers can shop the designers’ collections through DOKU’s ecommerce website at www.shopDOKU.com and can expect to interact with the brand and designers at popup shops in major markets, such as New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Chicago beginning in 2015. DOKU expects to continue its designer recruitment efforts to offer customers the most influential, emerging designers from around the globe.
DOKU is a personal endeavor of the founders of the company. Traveling the world and interacting with designers ignited their desire to bring awareness to the talent of independent designers everywhere. The birth of DOKU as an online marketplace is a result of the challenges that exist when trying to support designers abroad. “After returning to the states, we found it extremely frustrating to place orders to the amazing designers we discovered around the world.The shipping costs were outrageous and fulfillment times very slow. DOKU was born out of the desire to support global talent and an attempt to stay ahead of fashion

trends. It’s exciting to know that our customers can now be apart of that, ” says the DOKU’s founders.
DOKU is a privately owned company based in Washington, D.C.
